Year: 2009

We know that product activation can be a very complicated thing to figure out for developers, where environements are constantly torn down and rebuilt, and activations are not unlimited. I was just alerted of a few more resources that you may find useful:Product Activation in Development Environments for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Volume Activation:…

We see that everyone seems to be getting their bits and keys ok for Windows 7. Demand has been phenomenal, and WWW traffic overall today very high, so speeds may be a bit slower than you are used to. There have been several follow up questions I thought I would address: Windows Server 2008…

Enjoy! https://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/securedownloads/default.aspx?pv=36:350 and alternate download location (through Akamai): https://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/securedownloads/bb608344.aspx 8PM Update Early this evening, due to continued high demand for Windows 7 RTM bits, we made some changes to move traffic for the Enterprise and Ultimate bits over to Akamai. Some of you have noticed the Download links grayed out, but maybe did…

Reposting for higher visibility: We have had almost 100 unposted comments asking what time we will post Windows 7 RTM. Rather than posting them all, I’ll just say that we will make some announcements when it is made available for download. You can also monitor the Subscriptions RSS feed for notification when the bits are…

Several of you have asked for some additional details on the launch, in terms of waves and languages. Here you go: The initial launch wave is expected to be primarily English Client bits, but is expected to also have some language packs, WAIKs, SDKs, DDKs, etc. The next wave is expected to follow a…

I’m sure many people have seen this post, but for those who haven’t, here is official word, straight from the Windows team: http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/archive/2009/07/21/when-will-you-get-windows-7-rtm.aspx From the blog, MSDN and TechNet Subscribers will be able to download Windows 7 RTM on August 6th. Please let us know if you have any questions leading up to availability on…